The Minority in Parliament have predicted a collapse of the country’s Senior High School (SHS) education in five years if the challenges plaguing the sector under the free SHS policy are not fixed.

They say the challenges bedeviling SHS education under Akufo-Addo's flagship Free SHS policy are overwhelming and will cripple the schools soon.

Contributing to a debate on the floor of parliament on the 2018 budget statement, former Deputy Education Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, said the provision made for the policy in the 2018 budget is inadequate.

“In 2018, we are talking about four terms, and yet you have provided for only ¢1.13 billion for free SHS; woefully inadequate.

"But Mr Speaker, what is more even troubling is that the whole of Ghana was expecting that the Budget under education would come with a Marshal Plan; a rescue package for the disaster, which this country is grappling with," he said.

In September this year, government rolled out its lead campaign promise during the 2016 campaign.

A little over two months after the implementation of the policy, there has been a number of challenges being recorded at some of the schools.

Even though the free SHS policy increased school enrolment in all Schools across the country it came with its attendant infrastructural challenges.

Citing examples from various publications, the North Tongu MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa mentioned the Majority leader as well as a leading member of the NPP, Dr Amoako Tuffuor as having complained about the challenges being faced by some students and school heads.